Tajikistan is about 7 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Tajikistan is approximately 144,100 sq km, making Tajikistan 13.98% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (5.0 million more people live in Tajikistan).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Tajikistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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